I’ve always been a fan of pre-travel planning, to the point that I build a packing grid before every trip. The packing grid includes outfit components for every day of travel (based on predicted weather and activity), as well as a list of essentials that I don’t want to leave behind: Advil, Band-Aids, my Fitbit…

It’s hard to get a good night’s rest when it’s too hot to sleep—and since we’ve already started seeing “record high temperature” headlines in the news, it’s time to figure out our nighttime cool-down strategies.

Feeling the urge to get out of town—but not sure where you want to go The Washington Post’s Vacation Finder asks a series of questions (domestic or overseas? warm or cool?) to help narrow down your vacation priorities, then provides a handful of destinations to consider. You’ll get a few touristy suggestions, but…

Do you feel like your social life is out of control? Maybe you (or your kids) have events every evening, when all you want to do is spend a quiet night at home. Maybe you feel like you’re spending too much time “touching base” and “picking brains” with people you aren’t close to, and not enough time with your friends.…

If I asked you to identify the biggest asshole in your life right now, how quickly would you be able to come up with a name? Some of us might be able to list three or four assholes with whom we interact on a daily basis, plus all of the anonymous assholes who cut us off in traffic, cut in front of us in line, and…

Author and essayist Ursula K. Le Guin died yesterday at the age of 88, after completing an overwhelming number of novels, essays, short stories, and books of poetry. (When you visit her website, the list of major titles is three pages long.)

Nobody is immune to layoffs. Whether you’re an executive or an entry-level hire, layoffs can—and probably will—affect you at some point in your career. Consultants and freelancers have a bit of a buffer thanks to their multiple income streams, but when their industry suffers, they suffer too. (There’s nothing like…

So you’re in your brand-new apartment or house. Some of the boxes are still waiting to be unpacked, but you’re so excited about making this space into a home that you’re spending hours on Amazon or Bed Bath & Beyond, comparing sofa pillows and loading up shopping carts to see how much everything you might want is…

The next time your Instagram feeds up an ad, check the brand. Chances are, it’s actually a third-party reseller using Insta’s algorithm, content marketing, and good-old-fashioned arbitrage to get you to buy cheap stuff.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve heard a lot of people say that they want to quit some particularly addictive aspect of modern technology in 2018. Maybe you want to delete Candy Crush from your phone once and for all. Maybe you only want to check Twitter once a day. Maybe you want to stop hate-reading a feed or forum,…

It’s cold out there this winter—and it’s only going to get colder. Since it’s hard to get a good night’s sleep when it’s too chilly to relax, the Lifehacker team assembled their best strategies for making the warmest bed possible.

There are a lot of things you might be worried about right now: your job, your health, your relationships, your loved ones, the last thing you read on Twitter, our current political landscape, the threat of nuclear war... you get the idea.

If you feel awkward using gender-neutral pronouns—or avoid them because you don’t know how to use them correctly—it’s time to get up to speed. Language tends to shift towards inclusivity, and gender-neutral pronouns are becoming more widely used, so get in the habit now before you become one of those people who’s…

A lot of us budget month-to-month, which means we often spend a little extra one month and tell ourselves that we’ll make it up the next month. (Then the next month arrives and we tell ourselves we’ll make it up the month after that, and so on.)